Literature
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An Heiress from Redhorse by Ambrose Bierce
CORONADO, June 20th.I find myself more and more interested in him. It is not, I am sure, his–do you know…
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An Imperfect Conflagration by Ambrose Bierce
Early one June morning in 1872 I murdered my father–an act which made a deep impression on me at the…
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An Inhabitant Of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce
Fans of the HBO Series, “True Detective” will be familiar with the term Carcosa. This short story is the origination…
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
Set during the American Civil War, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek” is Bierce’s most famous short story. It was first…
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An Unfinished Race by Ambrose Bierce
James Burne Worson was a shoemaker who lived in Leamington, Warwickshire, England. He had a little shop in one of…
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A Psychological Shipwreck by Ambrose Bierce
In the summer of 1874 I was in Liverpool, whither I had gone on business for the mercantile house of…
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A Resumed Identity by Ambrose Bierce
I The Review As A Form Of Welcome One summer night a man stood on a low hill overlooking a…
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At Old Man Eckert’s by Ambrose Bierce
Philip Eckert lived for many years in an old, weather-stained wooden house about three miles from the little town of…
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A Tough Tussle by Ambrose Bierce
One night in the autumn of 1861 a man sat alone in the heart of a forest in western Virginia.…
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A Vine on a House by Ambrose Bierce
This work appears in Bierce’s 1913 collection of short stories, Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories, but it’s…
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